1Ph.D. Scholar, Faculty of Sciences, Humanities and Languages (English), Guru Kashi University, Talwandi Sabo, Punjab, India. Email: nehalehra68@gmail.com
2Supervisor, Faculty of Sciences, Humanities and Languages (English), Guru Kashi University, Talwandi Sabo, Punjab, India. Email: Saurabh20021@gmail.com
3Professor, RK University, India. Email: homera.durani@rku.ac.in
*Corresponding Author: Neha, Ph.D. Scholar, Faculty of Sciences, Humanities and Languages (English), Guru Kashi University, Talwandi Sabo, Punjab, India. Email: nehalehra68@gmail.com
Background: Most people think that Badal Sircar and Vijay Tendulkar are the two most famous people in contemporary Indian theater. With a focus on themes of social struggle and identity negotiation, this article presents an analysis of a selection of their plays. This article aims to examine these strategies in order to explore how repressive social structures define, constrain, and evaluate a person's ability to become and/or self-identify.
Objective: The study will devote equal time and energy to examining the plays of Sircar and Tendulkar. The middle class feels alienated and goes through a self-crisis because Sircar utilizes non-linear and absurdist theater to achieve this. In contrast, Tendulkar often has his plays center on themes of institutional insidiousness, moral evasion, and the excesses of patriarchy. By zeroing attention on certain subjects, he achieves this.
Methodology: Through the suffering of three middle-class Indian women, the existentialism-feminism-based textual analysis shows how individuals struggle against societal norms. It also shows how Sircar tried to reimagine the ludicrous in its whole.
Conclusion: The research primarily focuses on oppressive social structures and the controversial subject of identity within the setting of post-colonial India. Identity as a contentious factor is the primary subject of the research.
Keywords: Identity, Social Conflict, Indian Theatre, Patriarchy, Existentialism, Gender, Alienation
How to cite this article: Neha, Bhardwaj S, Durani H. Negotiating Identity and Social Conflict in the Plays of Vijay Tendulkar and Badal Sircar. Int J Drug Deliv Technol. 2026;16(12s): 758-764. DOI: 10.25258/ijddt.16.12s.90
Source of support: Nil.
Conflict of interest: None